Inking Backgrounds

I am always looking around for different techniques

and I found one about inking backgrounds. So I

embossed a piece of vellum and then inked with

round foam 'fingers' - (for want of another word)

- the back part of the embossing (first photo). Then

I cut a piece of stripped paper  to add to the

vellum at the bottom edge. I then went around the

whole piece with ink to make a thin border. I added

the ribbon before I stuck the piece to the card. Once

the vellum was stuck onto the card (with a special

glue for vellum) I added glitter to the middle of

the snowflakes of the pattern (second photo).Next

I stamped a pattern and sentiment onto paper and

then used a scalloped circle Nestability around the

image.Once cut out I embossed around the edge and

went around the scalloped edge with ink. I also

made a hole with a piercing tool in the middle

of each scallop and a little glitter in the middle of the

image (third photo).  The final part was to add a bow.  

I didn't use the bow that you can see in the photos,

made by using a fork, because I decided it was too

small.  After I had finished the card, I started

trying to dry the inky 'fingers' on a piece of

paper and saw that they made a pretty pattern

too – so that's another idea for backgrounds (photo 4).